different between eppy vs leppy

English

Etymology

Diminutive epileptic +? -y.

Noun

eppy (plural eppies)

1. (colloquial) An epileptic shock.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A tantrum or outburst.

English

Etymology

Spanish lepra (“leprosy”)

Pronunciation

Noun

leppy (plural leppies)

1. (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
   • 2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, p. 105:

     When those big bands take off, the mares never come back for those leppies. We were branding one time and saw a little bunch move out and a mom left a leppy behind.

   • 2003, American Cowboy, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 90:

     Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.

   • 1978, Sarah E. Olds, Twenty Miles From a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada, p. 44:

     I have heard a famous rodeo announcer crack the same old joke every year, "A leppy is a little calf whose ma has died, and whose pa has run away with another cow."

Synonyms

• bum calf
• bummer
• dogie

Finnish

Verb

leppy

1. Colloquial form of leppyi

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *leppä, possibly from Baltic. Cognates include Karelian proper leppä.

Noun

leppy

1. alder